Word: ribicoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparable period would have brought on considerable praise. But, at a time of oil shortages and sharply rising prices, the great increases fed suspicions on Capitol Hill that the oilmen were using the scarcity as an excuse for jacking up prices and making extortionate profits. Charged Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff: "While the consumer is suffering, the industry seems to be receiving a bonanza...
...Federal Power Commission have claimed the plant would kill 3 per cent of the striped bass hatch yearly; the AEC study, released this week by Sen. Abraham S. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) estimates a 25 per cent to 75 per cent annual kill...
...appears obvious," Ribicoff said, "that the utility and the Federal Power Commission clearly underestimated the potential damage at Storm King...
...some of Israel's strongest supporters are liberals who led antiwar sentiment in the U.S. during the Viet Nam years. The Senate resolution urging the continued delivery of Phantom fighter-bombers and other war materials was introduced by, among others, Viet Nam Doves Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff. Among the "American Professors for Peace in the Middle East" who signed an ad in the New York Times advocating support of Israel was Martin Peretz, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard and a major contributor to George McGovern's campaign...
Offner and Van Dyk argued that McGovern should propose jobs for the poor and concentrate on Nixon's mismanagement of the economy. And they persuaded McGovern's liberal Senate friends--Gaylord Nelson, Alan Cranston, and Abraham Ribicoff--to urge him not to propose the Ross plan...